Critical Theory and the School of Humanities present

The 2025-26 Wellek Lectures

Ariella Azoulay

Professor of Modern Culture and Media and the Department of Comparative Literature,

Brown University

May 19th-21st 2026

More info coming soon.

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Parking information for the 2026 Wellek Lectures

Visitors to UCI can park in the Mesa Parking Structure and walk over to the Humanities Instructional Building and Humanities Gateway, following the directional signs. You will need to either purchase a permit from the kiosk attendant, or you can follow the instructions in the parking structure for general parking. Please click on the link for a PDF map.

Mesa Parking Structure and Humanities Buildings.pdf

The Wellek Library Lectures at UCI

Since 1981, the UCI School of Humanities / Critical Theory has sponsored an annual lecture series, named in honor of René Wellek (Yale University), whose library of works in critical theory is housed in the Langson Library Special Collections at the University of California, Irvine. Each year, we invite an internationally distinguished critical theorist to visit campus and deliver a series of three lectures that develops their critical position and relates it to the contemporary theoretical scene. Learn more about the Wellek Library Lectures.

Past Wellek Lectures are listed on this webpage. Each set of lectures is generally published in the Columbia University Press Wellek Library Lectures series.